Ryan Lochte Was Robbed at Gunpoint in Rio

According to NBC News, Ryan Lochte was robbed at gunpoint in Rio. A spokesman for the International Olympic Committee had at first denied the claim after USA Today and Fox Sports Australia reported on the incident, but both Lochte and his mother told reporters the robbery occurred.

Lochte confirmed the reports to NBC’s Billy Bush, saying that he and three other swimmers were threatened.

“We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over,” Lochte said. “They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground—they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn’t do anything wrong, so—I’m not getting down on the ground.”

He continued, “And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, get down and I put my hands up, I was like, ‘whatever.’ He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone he left my credentials.”

“I think they’re all shaken up,” Ileana Lochte, Ryan Lochte’s mother, told USA Today.. “There were a few of them . . . they just took their wallets and basically that was it.”

The incident took place on Sunday, when the swimmers were socializing after their Olympic events had concluded.